Great Lakes Reviews, IFD Release Date (updated 9-17-06)

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Great Lakes Reviews, IFD Release Date (updated 9-17-06)

Published Wednesday, September 13, 2006 by Jeff | E-mail this post

The third album by Great Lakes, Diamond Times, was released yesterday from Empyrean Records. We reviewed it last week, and you can read that review here. A few other reviews are coming in...(updated 9/17/06)

A&A
AllMusic Guide
Babysue/LMNOP
Delusions of Adequacy
Exclaim Magazine
Funtime OK
San Diego CityBeat
Stomp and Stammer
Urban Pollution

I hate the Adequacy review, not because it disses the album (everyone's entitled to their opinion), but because it's a complete mess. You can read a live review of a London show at Soundsxp.

Great Lakes has wrapped up its tour with The Clientele (it was marvellous), but you can relive the glory days at Great Lakes member Kyle Forester's amusing tour blog at Gridskipper.

They have a show scheduled for Saturday, September 30 at the Union Hall in Brooklyn, New York. It's of particular interest because it will be an Elephant 6-themed evening, with Great Lakes joining Elf Power and M Coast. If you live in the area, you should not pass it up.

On a non-Great Lakes note, Samantha of the Ideal Free Distribution has written in with the album's release date: December 12 on Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records. So yeah, our fall preview thing that we put up last week is, like, really inaccurate. But I don't want to take it off the fall preview because you should really listen to the MP3 we have there. She also hints that the band might be touring with The Apples in Stereo come early winter '07.